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Do you use Cockney Rhyming slang in your converations
I love when people from the East part of London speak in Rhyming slang. And i sometimes say few phrases like
This is all gone Pete Tong or You having a bubble Do you sometimes say a few Rhyming slang phrases when you talk to people |
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course I do, me ol' china, gawd blimey, I'm off up the apples and pears to have a bo peep and rest me bleedin plates
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course I do, me ol' china, gawd blimey, I'm off up the apples and pears to have a bo peep and rest me bleedin plates
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When I lived in South London we used to call a five pound note a Jackson.
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I love when people from the East part of London speak in Rhyming slang. And i sometimes say few phrases like
This is all gone Pete Tong or You having a bubble Do you sometimes say a few Rhyming slang phrases when you talk to people Pete Tong and bubble bath for laugh are fairly recent innovations, and weren't used in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, when rhyming slang was everyday speech in London. I recall around 25 years ago, a friend tried to introduce 'haddock' for a car, he said it was haddock and bloater for motor, fortunately that fell by the wayside. |
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I do on occasion find myself saying "haven't a Scooby".
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When my husband gets home in his sherbet I'll ask him.
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Only when wearing my Pearl King ensemble whilst shopping at Waitrose on a Saturday morning. Otherwise, never.
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Only when I'm wearing my diddly-doo's and my Gregory Pecks.
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People use bottle, Charlie and berk a lot without apparently being aware of what they're saying.
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You're having a Giraffe, Mate.
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When I lived in South London we used to call a five pound note a Jackson.
Another term for a fiver was a glove, from five fingers I guess. Going off thread a bit, in the mid eighties in rural towns in the South-East of the U.S., bars would often have "Drinking with Lincoln" nights, where for $5 you could drink cheaper beers and non branded liquor all night. The 5 dollar bill bears the face of Abraham Lincoln. |
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My husband's from Fulham, he calls Poles sausage rolls, that's Poles as in persons from Poland.
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When my husband gets home in his sherbet I'll ask him.
A lot of people who have no idea what a 'green badge, a bill, and identifiers' are will have no idea of what you mean Croctacus. |
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My husband's from Fulham, he calls Poles sausage rolls, that's Poles as in persons from Poland.
bloody sausage rolls coming over here and nicking our jobs
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Never heard Jackson, but a five pound note was often called a Jack's in the pubs I used in Rotherhithe, it came from, (and don't ask me how), Jack's alive, five.
Another term for a fiver was a glove, from five fingers I guess. Going off thread a bit, in the mid eighties in rural towns in the South-East of the U.S., bars would often have "Drinking with Lincoln" nights, where for $5 you could drink cheaper beers and non branded liquor all night. The 5 dollar bill bears the face of Abraham Lincoln.
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I guess the expression most used without knowing it is cockney slang is 'a load of' cobblers'
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People use bottle, Charlie and berk a lot without apparently being aware of what they're saying.
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Had enough I'm away up the apple and pears to bed.
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I guess the expression most used without knowing it is cockney slang is 'a load of' cobblers'
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No I'm pretty sure that I don't, although having thought about it, I do still call a watch a kettle, (kettle and hob = fob), but I never say apples for stairs, skin and blister for sister, or Surrey Docks for socks.
Pete Tong and bubble bath for laugh are fairly recent innovations, and weren't used in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, when rhyming slang was everyday speech in London. I recall around 25 years ago, a friend tried to introduce 'haddock' for a car, he said it was haddock and bloater for motor, fortunately that fell by the wayside. I've never heard anyone say apples & pears, in fact the actual rhyming word is never normally pronounced. Arthur Daley introduced a few good ones such as Hampsteads for teeth, and Miltons for baked beans (Miltons on toast). Danny Dire the fake cockney seems to make his own up generally but I think I've heard 'Let's have a Russell' elsewhere. |
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No, because i'm not from London and i don't want to talk like an idiot.
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